Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Enterprise Impact

Traversal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity

In-office snacks

Job summary

Traversal in New York is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the last-mile delivery of our AI SRE platform for enterprise customers. You will rapidly iterate on production software, tailoring the Traversal platform to large-scale environments and petabytes of data.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, influence the engineering roadmap, and partner with AI researchers, product and infrastructure teams to deploy robust, observable backend and AI-enabled solutions on AWS, focusing on

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with backend, data, or cloud infra focus.
• Experience with LLM-based applications and/or multi-agent systems and iterative evaluation.
• Proven ability to lead in fast-paced startup environments with limited resources.
• Collaborative, impact-driven mindset across research and engineering teams.
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications on AWS (ECS/EKS), Postgres, and S3.
• Strong familiarity with observability and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of scalable backend systems to support AI agents and observability tools.
• Prototype and evaluate prompting strategies and tool-use policies for agents on large-scale data.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, product engineers, and infra teams to upgrade core platform.
• Provide white glove deployment support for Traversal in enterprise environments.
• Build long-term relationships with customers and identify new AI deployment opportunities.
• Be a champion for Traversal’s mission in the field.

Skills

Backend systems

Cloud infrastructure

LLM apps

Leadership

Observability

AWS ECS/EKS

Postgres

S3 storage

Job description

Traversal in New York is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to own the last-mile delivery of our AI SRE platform for enterprise customers. You will rapidly iterate on production software, tailoring the Traversal platform to large-scale environments and petabytes of data.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, influence the engineering roadmap, and partner with AI researchers, product and infrastructure teams to deploy robust, observable backend and AI-enabled solutions on AWS, focusing on